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Mary on horseback : three mountain stories / Rosemary Wells ; pictures by Peter McCarty.
LIBRA - Tehon Collection RT37.B72 W44 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wells, Rosemary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965--Juvenile literature.
- Breckinridge, Mary.
- Breckinridge, Mary, 1881-1965.
- Frontier Nursing Service, Inc.
- Nurses--Kentucky--Juvenile literature.
- Nurses.
- Medical care--Kentucky--History--Juvenile literature.
- Medical care.
- Frontier Nursing Service, Inc--Juvenile literature.
- Women--Biography.
- Frontier Nursing Service, inc.
- History of Nursing.
- History, 20th Century.
- Rural Health Services--history.
- History.
- Kentucky.
- Medical Subjects:
- Nurses.
- History of Nursing.
- History, 20th Century.
- Rural Health Services--history.
- Kentucky.
- Genre:
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)
- Tehon, Susan (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 53 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, [©1998]
- Summary:
- Tells the stories of three families who were helped by the work of Mary Breckinridge, the first nurse to go into the Appalachian Mountains and give medical care to the isolated inhabitants. Includes an afterword with facts about Breckinridge and the Frontier Nursing Service she founded.
- Contents:
- Kentucky 1923
- Mountain Medicine
- Ireland of Scotland
- How Many Stars in my Crown?
- Mary Breckinridge.
- Notes:
- "Designed by Karen Robbins"--t.p. verso.
- "First Edition."
- Designed by Atha Tehon.
- "Illustrations are based on photographs taken for the Frontier Nursing Service by Marvin Breckenridge Patterson ..."
- Local Notes:
- Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.
- Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wells, Rosemary. Mary on horseback.
- ISBN:
- 0803721544
- 9780803721548
- 0803721552
- 9780803721555
- OCLC:
- 37910406
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